Doug Doughty

Doug Doughty's College Notebook Plus is exclusive to roanoke.com and is posted by 5 p.m. Fridays.

Find his College Notebook from The Roanoke Times in Thursday's college sports section

Miss the Insider column? Check out the Insiders blog

• Coaches’ quotes following 60-48 UVa loss to Clemson

Recent columns

• Ex-Hokies’ quarterback linked with Maryland
• Tech and UVa classes ranked in ACC’stop half
• Put DE Ekanem in Hokies’ column
• Deal for Terps’ assistant could lead to temptation

• Column archive

Does this ever happen to anyone else?

I was driving to work today – well, actually I was headed to the SEC Roundtable – when I stopped to get some money.

Why is it that, every time I stop at the ATM machine – I mean, every time – that the driver in front of me has no clue how to make a transaction?

The more of a rush that I’m in, the slower the person in front of me tends to be.

Now, I’ll admit that I don’t make any difficult transactions at the ATM. (I would put a deposit in that category). But, you should be in and out in 30-35 seconds, max.

Right?

NOW THAT I’M DONE venting, I can report that there was nothing important to come out of the Roundtable today, where Roanoke talk-show host Greg Roberts gave a few more details about his absence from the airways last week.

As reported in last week’s Notebook Plus, Roberts was vacationing in Cozumel with Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer and assorted members of Beamer’s staff.

Cozumel is an island off the Caribbean coast of Mexico.

Golf playing was at a minimum, Roberts said, because “Beams” was preparing for knee-replacement surgery.

“Beams?”

Beamer’s surgery took place today, or else he might be looking up Roberts to kick his butt.

“Obviously, he’s [Roberts] got a connection that the rest of us don’t have,” offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring said. “I’ve never even called him ‘Frank.’ Just ‘coach Beamer; yes, sir, and no, sir.'"

THE REST OF THIS week’s notebook will be devoted to the 2008 football recruiting season. Now that I’ve had time to go through various school releases and other wrap-ups, here are some of the ACC-related items that interested me:

• Seven Miami signees enrolled in January after graduating from high school in January, as did five Clemson signees, three Florida State signees and one signee for both Maryland and North Carolina State.
  
  
• A total of eight Miami signees enrolled in January, including a junior-college transfer, which helps account for the Hurricanes’ total of 32. The Division I-A limit is 25, but second-semester enrollees can count forward or backward.
  
  
• Eight of Miami’s signees come from Northwestern High School in Miami, which ended the season ranked No. 1 in the country. The Hurricanes’ haul includes quarterback Jacory Harris, who passed for 3,445 yards and 49 touchdowns, and three of his wide receivers.
  
  
• Miami signed a wide receiver from Belle Glade Central, Travis Benjamin, whose coach is Willie Snead. Wonder if that’s the same Willie Snead who came out of Belle Glade Central with John Ford and played for UVa in the mid-1980s?
  
  
• Maryland signed two players from Virginia .
  
  
• Boston College signee Codi Boek, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound quarterback from Orangevale, Calif., and American River, began his college career at Idaho State, where he was a four-time scout-team player of the week as a redshirt in 2005.
  
  
• Another Boston College quarterback signee, 6-3, 205-pound Justin Tuggle from Alpharetta, Ga., is the son of ex-NFL linebacker and five-time Pro Bowl selection Jessie Tuggle.
  
  
• Florida State and N.C. State each signed three junior-college transfers and Boston College, Clemson, Miami signed one apiece.
  
  
• Seven ACC players got at least one player apiece from Hargrave Military Academy. Virginia Tech got three, North Carolina and N.C. State signed two apiece, and Duke, Maryland, Miami and Wake Forest had one.
  
  
• Boston College signed Okechukwu Okoroha and Ugo Okpara, and Duke signed Kenny Anunike and Patrick Kurunwune. The future Blue Devils will join current Dukies Ayanga Okpokowuruk, Ifreke Okpowuruk, Vince Oghobasse, Chris Rwabukamba and Mike Tauiliili.
  
  
• Florida State signee Zebrie Sanders, a 6-5, 273-pound offensive lineman from Northmont High School in Clayton, Ohio, is a violinist in a chamber orchestra and also has a ranking of eagle scout in the Boy Scouts.
  
  
• Clemson, not known for its stellar kicking game in recent years, had two signees whom it is designating as punter-placekickers, Spencer Beston from Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Dawson Zimmerman from Snellville, Ga. It’s likely that Beston will be the kicker and Zimmerman the punter.
  
  
• Tech’s Beamer said in an on-line chat that, in his efforts to recruit Beaufort, S.C., defensive end Devin Taylor, he crossed paths with a South Carolina recruiter, who just happened to be Beamer’s son, Shane. Turns out, Taylor signed with Little Beams and the Gamecocks.
  
  
• What does Sonny Randle know about recruiting? Maybe nothing, but he does have an in with Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe and says that Deacs quarterback signee Ted Stachitas from Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, Fla., has been mentioned in the same breath as Tim Tebow.

Wake has found a niche in north Florida, home to six of its 17 signees.